Coal-bag



H. JOSYEPHSON.

C'OAL BAG.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7, 1919.

Patented May 11, 1920.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY JOSEPHSON, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGN'OR OF ONE-HALF TO RODERICK C. MCNEIL, 0F BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

COAL-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 7, 1919. Serial No. 336,451.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY JosEPHsoN, a subject of the King of Roumania, residing at 695 Madison Ave, Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have in vented an Improvement in Coal-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a coal bag which shall be relatively in expensive to produce and the bottom of which shall be so constructed as to make the bag almost indestructible.

It is of course well understood that in the retail business coal is now extensively delivered in bags holding one-sixteenth, more or less, of a ton each. These bags are filled at the yard, loaded in trucks, and emptied at the point of delivery. As bags of coal are very heavy it naturally follows that they receive very hard usage, such as being dropped from the truck to a sidewalk and being dragged for quite a distance before emptying. Various styles of bags have been tried for this purpose but none have been found to meet the requirements of use. If the bottoms are made of canvas they quickly wear out, if made of wood they are apt to split and break when subjected to the strains of use and furthermore the bags will not drain. The problem has been to provide a bottom which would for a long period of time stand the strain and wear of being dropped upon and dragged on rough sidewalks and which it should be practically impossible to split.

WVith these and other objects in view I have devised the novel coal bag which I will now describe referring to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and using reference characters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly broken away, showing my novel coal bag complete;

Fig. 2 a plan view of the bottom detached, and

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the bottom.

The essential feature is that the bottom comprises a plurality of slats made of strong tough wood, as hickory, which are spaced apart by Washers and are held together by rods passed through the slats and through the washers.

1O denotes the body, which may be made from a single strip of heavy canvas sufficiently Wide to give to the bag the desired height, the ends of the strip being secured together by a single seam, as at 11. The top and bottom edges of the body are strengthened by turning the edges over outward and stitching them down forming folds of the canvas, as at 12 and 13 respectively. The bottom fold of the body is secured to the bottom by large headed nails 14, which are driven through the canvas and into the ends and edges of the bottom. 15 denotes the handles which are formed from a plurality of strips of canvas, the outer strips extending down the sides of the body and over the bottom fold 13, and the inner strips of the handles extending down a relatively short distance on the inner side of the body. The exact shape of the bag is not an essential feature of the invention although I preferably make it oblong substantially as shown in the drawing, the length being something more than double the width.

The bottom comprises a plurality, in the present instance five, of slats indicated by 16 which are made of strong, tough wood. These slats are made oblong and of a width approximately double their thickness. Spacing washers 17 are placed between the slats and the slats are secured together by cross rods 18 which are passed through the slats centrally, in the direction of their width, and are also passed through the spacing washers. I thus produce a strong and practically non-breakable bottom and one sufiiciently flexible to meet the requirements of use. The end cross rods are preferably made slightly longer than the width of the bottom and their ends are bent over tightly against the edges of the outer slats forming heads 19 which clamp the slats and the washers tightly together. whether or not the intermediate cross rods are made long enough to provide for their ends being headed over, as the holes in the slats for the rods are made small enough to insure a drive fit and the ends of the rods are covered by bottom edge fold 13.

Patented May 11, 1920.

It is immaterial In practice I preferably round the ends of the outer slats thus eliminating the sharp corners which would greatly impair the wearing qualities of the bag.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A coal bag the side walls of which aremade of flexible material and the bottom of which consists of spaced slats with spacing washers between them, said slats and washers being secured together by cross rodspassing through both slats and washers and said Washers being of such shape and dimensions as not to extend beyond the outer HARRY J OSEPHSON. 

